It's residential cable internet.  I'm just doing this to experiment with 
Linux honestly...

Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote:

>>It's a dual-boot system... ocasionally i'll have to boot windows for a
>>few minutes... I just didn't want to loose any e-mail while I went into
>>Windows.
>>Matt
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>well the other thing you could do is. install the mail server on the extra
>machine also make it into  a firewall/router so that  you could keep
>your main system behind that extra machine. so the next time you reboot
>you don't have to worry about your email.
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>just out of curiosity is your connection DSL for residential or
>commercial? or something different?
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>karthik
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>>Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote:
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>>>>configure to be a back-up mail server for when this one goes down.  I am
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>>>what do you mean by goes down. you take it down? or your connection fails?
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>>>>running the mail server for myself only... it doesn't handle tons of
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>>>Bad idea if you are on a network with dynamic IP esp COX. I would suggest
>>>configure such a way that the mail goes through your ISP's mail server.
>>>Its more reliable. If you host your own the mails may be blocked by other
>>>ISPs
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>>>>mail or anything.  Any advice or input would be greatly apreciated.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>Matthew
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